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DDD
April 22nd, 2003, 11:28 AM
Ok I am trying to make a seam less bgrd. But what I want to tile is text. But for each line of text I want it to shift to the right. So when I tile the bgrd (or pattern) the text will have the appearance of being diagonally lined up as you look down the page. Not in straight vertical lines. I hope I described that right. If someone could help me I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks
DDD
April 24th, 2003, 02:33 PM
bump :(
mlk
April 24th, 2003, 02:52 PM
yup no problem, image coming up ---
mlk
April 24th, 2003, 02:58 PM
is this what you're looking for (try to use the 'use as a wallpaper' option)
http://mlkdesign.online.fr/misc/kirupa/seamless.gif
DDD
April 24th, 2003, 04:24 PM
that is exactly what I am trying to do how did you do that?
mdipi
April 24th, 2003, 07:38 PM
i want to know too
Hawk
April 24th, 2003, 09:06 PM
line it up right :beam:
DDD
April 25th, 2003, 02:05 PM
bump....mlk how did you do that....I could not find a use as wallpaper option??
grimdeath
April 25th, 2003, 03:43 PM
in photoshop just type in your text, then raster the text, use the marquee tool to select a square area around the text then go to edit and choose define pattern or something like that good luck :beam:

this works with text or any image you want to use as a pattern, with text you have to make sure its rastered otherwise it wont work ;)
mdipi
April 25th, 2003, 04:09 PM
3d use tile
DDD
April 25th, 2003, 04:32 PM
:( I cant get it to work like his did........Could someone post a screen sshot or something please
mdipi
April 25th, 2003, 04:33 PM
of the desktop bg?
i will if thats it...let me know
DDD
April 25th, 2003, 04:46 PM
I am not trying to make a desktop? I am trying to make this pattern for a web page bgrd. I think I may have confused ya'll is it possible to do what ever it is your doing and use that as a webpage bgrd??
mdipi
April 25th, 2003, 04:46 PM
i think it should werk the same though/
DDD
April 25th, 2003, 04:50 PM
eh....maybe I am missing something....I will back away from the cpu and try this again in a minute........
mdipi
April 25th, 2003, 09:22 PM
ywah thaT always helops!
mlk
April 26th, 2003, 09:12 AM
sorry i didnt check the thread earlier - i didnt use an automated script but methinks i could someday anyway i'll try to explain:
try to think in term of textures and the way it'll repeat.

basically what i did was
.: i copied and pasted the same line of text 11 times and kept the same space in between each.

.: i indented the space each time to get the diagonal effect until the last text was aligned with the first

.: i deleted the last one and cropped the image to have a SQUARE having for width 1 line of text